You may have the right to remain silent, but if the ruling of a federal judge in a recent Colorado case is anything to go by, your computer doesn't get any such protection -- even if the hard drive is encrypted to prevent people such as law enforcement officers from snooping around to find incriminating evidence.
The “cloud” is great, until something goes drastically wrong. Sometime on Sunday, online file-hosting service Dropbox pushed out a system update, inadvertently letting anyone log into any Dropbox account without a password.
Encrypting data on your hard drive can be such nuisance, what with all the special apps and public/private keys, and the whole thing might as well be a pound of slag if you forget the passcode.
Think your USB drive is small? Well here’s some news. A team of students at Hong Kong’s Chinese University may have discovered a way to encrypt large chunks of computer data into a strain of microscopic E. coli bacteria, with one gram capable of holding as much information as 450 individual 2TB hard drives. That’s [...]
There’s an investigator I know, top of her profession, who once put her laptop in the trunk of a cab. By the time she reached her hotel, the laptop was gone. This happens thousands of times a year at airports, train stations, libraries and coffee shops. Sometimes the thief wants your hardware. Sometimes your data [...]
